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President pence. he released a transcript of this call. we don't know if it was a word for word readout. several of the documents relate to prep for this call, talking points, memorandum and communications that relate to that call. with that chunk of documents, you're the legal expert here, the executive privilege argument holds less water. at the same time i think we can expect to see this request go to other cabinet officials that may have been involved. mick mulvaney should probably expect a subpoena, he was related to all of these activities. secretary of state mike pompeo has not provided...

Jurisdiction. it's not up to us to notify congress. we've also suggested that this might trip on executive privilege argument which always points to the president or senior officials at the white house. >> it is interesting to me because as we know the president does have power to declassify information. we also know the president has been loose with classified information. he just has. this has been an issue dating back to oval office meetings with the russian ambassador. he tweeted maps from iran. but there is a distinction here, maybe, and it may be an important one between classified infor...

From questioning former white house communications director hope hicks behind closed doors. i want to discuss now. jennifer rogers is here. ali as well. good evening to both of you. so jennifer, you argue that the most important thing that hicks could shed light on was when she worked -- actually worked in the white house. what do you make of the white house counsel, the attempt there to limit her testimony? because, you know, she was huge during the campaign. even before. >> yeah, and she, i mean, the most important thing she probably did was take part in that false statement about the trump ...

Trouble. it will be used to protect her and it will have to go to court to determine. >> way back in the day there used to be briefings and we covered them, and i did during my time, she talked with special counsel and robert mueller's team always. they cited her interviews specifically 73 times. her name shows up 100 times overall in the mueller report. you can see some of the ways she's mentioned here. it is the first shot today that somebody who was this close to him since the mueller report came out. what would you expect to see when we eventually see the transcript? >> i would expect to s...

We're back with our political and legal experts and jeffrey toobin, as you know, the white house in this letter sent to jerry nadler, the chairman of the judiciary committee, has instructed their two former white house officials, hope hicks and annie donaldson not to comply with congressional subpoenas for information about what they were doing at the white house during all of this controversy. how strong of a legal argument do they make? >> well, if this were just starting from scratch, i think the white house might have a decent executive privilege argument, because these are high-level disc...